Ascended sinister trinkets - ugh

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Posted by: Solandri.9640

Solandri.9640

So I completed Point of No Return (last part of Living Story season 2), and only two ascended trinkets showed up at the merchants:

Jurah’s Jewel (amulet)
Verata’s Seared Ring (ring)

To get the other ascended sinister trinkets, you have to complete the achievement masteries (i.e. all the “optional” achievements for each part of the living story).

Accessories:
Caithe’s Blossom - Echoes of the Past mastery
Caithe’s Remorse - Point of No Return mastery

Ring:
Plague Signet Ring - Tangled Paths mastery

Amulet:
Wynne’s Locket - Seeds of Truth mastery
(if you don’t want to pay 10g for Jurah’s Jewel, or you want a defensive infusion slot instead of offensive)

There doesn’t seem to be an option to outright buy these – you have to complete mastery achievement before they’ll show up in the merchant. Ugh. I don’t have time nor the inclination to do every single one of these achievements. I’ll probably just piece together some sort of hybrid build instead of getting a full sinister set.

Is there some other trick to getting these that I’m missing?

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Posted by: Quarktastic.1027

Quarktastic.1027

The achievement bound ones unfortunately cannot be purchased.

The achievements themselves aren’t that bad though. I managed to solo all of them over the course of about 2 weeks, doing a few (sometimes just a single instance) a day. There are also groups that pop up frequently on lfg for the more tedious/difficult ones.

Those armadillos would be a lot cooler if they looked more like real armadillos. mmm armadillos
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Posted by: jewishjoyride.4693

jewishjoyride.4693

That’s a true shame. Those achievements were some of the most fun I’ve had in pve content ever. Soloed everything on my ranger. Couldn’t be happier that I did.

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Posted by: jewishjoyride.4693

jewishjoyride.4693

That’s a true shame. Those achievements were some of the most fun I’ve had in pve content ever. Soloed everything on my ranger. Couldn’t be happier that I did.

I should say this was pre 6/23 patch as well.

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Posted by: Photinous.4628

Photinous.4628

These achievements were really fun to solo. I would only recommend ele for the point of no return solo because the trials are difficult to solo on ranger.

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Posted by: xarallei.4279

xarallei.4279

It would be nice if Anet bumped jewelcrafting to 500 and allowed people to craft these. Went through these stories once and I don’t really have any inclination to run through them again.

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Posted by: HotHit.6783

HotHit.6783

Xarallei, the achievements are pretty awesome and often require you to learn the mechanics of the boss fights and missions so as to be able to complete them. If you’re not interested in that, then you probably aren’t interested in the challenging group content where those kinds of skills are required. The same challenging group content where you need optimised equipment and the skills you had to hone to get that optimised equipment.

As far as I’m aware, newer players will find sinister trinkets behind a gem pay wall though, which is kind of unreasonable. Even so, it’s still an improvement on the implementation of Zealot and Sentinel equipment.

Never Fight Alone” – Sunspear Creed
There, it’s dead and it’s never coming back!” – Famous last words

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Posted by: Guanglai Kangyi.4318

Guanglai Kangyi.4318

When I complained about the slogs of terribad writing and unskippable dialogue required to do this a while back, everyone blew me off, probably because they didn’t think Sinister was a real thing. Funny that the tables have turned.

That said, the actual cheevies aren’t that hard, just mostly boring as hell.

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Posted by: xarallei.4279

xarallei.4279

I am interested in the challenging new content. Just because I find the living story stuff boring to have to run through again doesn’t mean I’m not. And crafting should be a valid way of getting these things. Period. Jewelcrafting has been neglected long enough as it is.

edit: Oh and I hope the achievement for the sinister trinket does not include anything in the story with Glint’s domain. That one literally made me sick. I had to stop playing it I was so nauseous. Eventually, I made it through but it was very rough on me and I have no wish to reenter that place.

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Posted by: Solandri.9640

Solandri.9640

edit: Oh and I hope the achievement for the sinister trinket does not include anything in the story with Glint’s domain. That one literally made me sick. I had to stop playing it I was so nauseous. Eventually, I made it through but it was very rough on me and I have no wish to reenter that place.

The one I listed as Echoes of the Past mastery requires achievements in Glint’s domain.

I don’t mind doing achievements, but a lot of these require you to play as Caithe – with thief skills. I made a thief my first month of playing the game, and hated it. It’s been sitting as a storage mule for years (the teleport on shortbow 5 is handy for moving between banker, BL trader, and guild bank in Rata Sum).

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Posted by: Quarktastic.1027

Quarktastic.1027

edit: Oh and I hope the achievement for the sinister trinket does not include anything in the story with Glint’s domain. That one literally made me sick. I had to stop playing it I was so nauseous. Eventually, I made it through but it was very rough on me and I have no wish to reenter that place.

The one I listed as Echoes of the Past mastery requires achievements in Glint’s domain.

I don’t mind doing achievements, but a lot of these require you to play as Caithe – with thief skills. I made a thief my first month of playing the game, and hated it. It’s been sitting as a storage mule for years (the teleport on shortbow 5 is handy for moving between banker, BL trader, and guild bank in Rata Sum).

You could always find a group and have someone else host the instance. That way, you can play as your chosen profession. (in sylvari warden form).

Honestly though, Caithe’s skills are so massively overpowered it makes those achievements a breeze.

Those armadillos would be a lot cooler if they looked more like real armadillos. mmm armadillos
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